The Media & Their Narratives.

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It seems the staff of the BBC are mainly comprised of folk who adhere to a cultish nature.
The term 'Experts' is suggested to mean anyone who believes in something.

BBC editor claims she was forced out over gender-critical views
Former chief writer for BBC News says she was blacklisted by ‘expert’ LGBT reporters who
became gatekeepers of transgender stories



'A veteran BBC broadcast journalist has claimed she was forced out over her gender-critical
views. Catherine Leng, a former chief writer for BBC News, said younger specialist LGBT
reporters had been able to “gatekeep” which stories on transgender issues were covered
because older editors were wrongly deferring to them on such subjects.

She told The Times that when she started pitching gender-critical stories, she was allegedly
stonewalled. The BBC has been plunged into crisis after The Telegraph published a dossier
detailing concerns over impartiality at the broadcaster. These included claims the BBC
published “a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories… celebrating the trans experience”
while ignoring gender-critical stories.

The memo, sent to BBC board members by Michael Prescott, a former standards adviser,
also revealed Panorama had doctored a speech by Donald Trump to suggest the president
had encouraged the Capitol riots in January 2021.

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the BBC’s former director-general and head of news,
resigned on Sunday in the wake of the dossier’s publication. In an interview with The Times,
Ms Leng said the introduction of news “hubs” in 2018 resulted in LGBT stories being exclusively
covered by younger reporters on the “learning and identity” desk.

“These people were treated as experts simply because they were believers in the idea of gender
identity,” Ms Leng told the newspaper. Ms Leng claimed to have witnessed a News at Ten editor
seeking counsel from a junior journalist on their use of language for a story about Pride.

“The reason they were considered to have expertise is of course because nobody else understands it,”
she said, adding: “They’re allowed to spout this gobbledegook and they’re treated as experts when
it comes to which language to use.” Ms Leng said her first skirmish with editors came in 2016 when
she was rebuked for referring to Chelsea Manning, the trans army intelligence analyst who handed
classified military documents to WikiLeaks, as “he”.

From then on, she started emailing news executives with concerns over the use of accurate language
and began pitching gender-critical stories such as the employment tribunal of Maya Forstater.
“I just got blanked, completely blanked,” she told The Times. “Then when you push it next time,
you’re accused of having an agenda.”

She claimed staff began steering clear of gender-critical stories for fear of being shunned, while
organisations such as Sex Matters, Transgender Trend and LGB Alliance became unofficially
blacklisted.

“Nobody actually has to say anything to you,” she said. “It’s just that opportunities are denied, you
get given crappy shifts, you are stuck on the desk rewriting copy.”

Returning after a period of stress-related sick leave in 2021, Ms Leng said she was shocked to
witness a shift in language at the BBC and took to Twitter to criticise the use of the term “cis”,
which refers to someone identifying as the sex they were born.

She was ordered to remove the posts and when she refused, she was subjected to a disciplinary
investigation. Ms Leng said she was already facing two other complaints over her gender-critical
stance and decided to accept redundancy in 2022. “I did feel forced out,” she said.

A BBC spokeswoman said: “[The broadcaster] reports a wide range of views and perspectives in line
with our editorial guidelines. We continually review our coverage to reflect new developments and
since the period your interviewee is describing we have updated the news style guide and shared
new guidance. Where there have been concerns about particular stories, we have addressed them.
“Although we do not comment on individual staff members or former staff members, all news staff
are required to comply with the BBC’s social media guidelines, and we take the appropriate action
when these are breached.”...'

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